Here is a summary of today's key events

•Oscar Pistorius has been picked to run the 400m and 4x400m relay for South Africa, meaning the athlete, whose legs were amputated when he was 11 months old, will compete in both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games. He said today was “one of the happiest days of my life”.•David Millar was picked as expected for the Team GB five-man road cycling squad, along with Mark Cavendish, Chris Froome, Ian Stannard and Bradley Wiggins. Millar served a two-year suspension from 2004 to 2006 after admitting taking the banned blood booster EPO. But the British Olympic Association was subsequently forced to drop its lifetime Olympic ban for athletes found to have committed doping offences, allowing Millar – as well as Dwain Chambers and Carl Myerscough – to compete this year. Millar said: “I hope the public will see this race as Cav's and not Millar the drug cheat's.”•Louis Smith and Beth Tweddle will lead the men's and women's artistic gymnastics teams at London 2012, but Daniel Keatings misses out. The 15-year-old Rebecca Tunney becomes the youngest member of Team GB after being named in the women's team. Team GB's rowing line-up for London 2012 was completed as Constantine Louloudis was named in the men's eight category.•British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has said a flare-up of her foot injury will not put her appearance at the Olympics in doubt. Spain’s Rafael Nadal said the same about the tendinitis in his knee. And it was confirmed that Daniel Sturridge, one of the British football squad, has viral meningitis and may not be fit enough to play in the Olympic tournament.•Jenny Meadows, the 2009 world bronze 800m medallist, has called Team GB’s decision not to pick her for the Olympic athletics squad “a slap in the face”.• UK Sport, the government’s sport agency, has announced its official goal of a place in the top four in the Olympic medal table at London 2012, and has set a target of at least 48 medals from at least 12 sports. Team GB came fourth in 2008 and won 47 medals, leading to speculation organisers are downplaying expectations this time.•The row over the non-selection of Aaron Cook has caused the British taekwondo team "unwanted and significant" distractions ahead of the Olympics, UK Sport has said.•Danny Boyle, the director of the Olympic opening ceremony, has written to animal rights campaigners promising no harm will come to any of the animals used in the show.• A planned strike by London bus workers tomorrow in a row over an Olympic bonus has been suspended to allow further talks, conciliation service Acas has said. Earlier Transport for London offered to share any additional bus-fare revenue earned during the Games with drivers, who want a £500 Olympic bonus payment. Meanwhile a leading solicitor has expressed concern that London courts may not cope with the additional pressures the Games will put them under.

Thanks for all your comments. See you tomorrow.

•Correction, 5 July 2012: This blog originally said that Oscar Pistorius would be the first person to compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In fact South Africa's Natalie du Toit did so in 2008. Apologies.

Updated at 12.53pm BST

4.27pm BST

Here is the Olympic torch this afternoon at Sandringham, the Queen's country retreat, with rugby player Rachel Forrest carrying it.

The Olympic torch at Sandringham today. Photograph: Yui Mok/Locog/PA

Updated at 4.27pm BST

4.18pm BST

Marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has also spoken today about the controversial selection of Lynsey Sharp – who only has a B standard time – and not Jenny Meadows or others with the A standard to run the 800m. Radcliffe said she felt that in principle anyone securing the A standard should compete:

The women's 800m was always going to be a very difficult and controversial selection. I'm not party to the information that the selectors had on injury and form. They have to go with gut feeling and who they think is going to perform.

I think that if you have reached the A standard, are 100% healthy and ready to go, then you should be in there. What's happened here is there's a situation where that doesn't apply. It's very difficult. But on the events we can fill with athletes, then we should do that because on the day people can definitely raise their game. At the same time the selectors have to pick people who will perform and win a medal.

It's a very strong squad. It was a very difficult day yesterday, heartbreaking for a lot of people. The people I feel most for are those who couldn't make it because of injury.

4.14pm BST

Ireland has announced its Olympic team. The boxing team includes world champion Katie Taylor; women's boxing is in the Olympics for the first time this year. Click here for the full list.

Pat Hickey, the president of the Olympic Council of Ireland, praised the support and assistance Team Ireland has been given by Locog and Seb Coe. "We were not supposed to have received any favours from the organisers but we received many favours," he said. Ireland considers this in effect a home Olympics, the Press Association reports.

Irish boxer Katie Taylor.

4.01pm BST

Regarding inappropriate Olympic bandwagon-jumping (see earlier), reader Matthew West recalls that in 1992 Viz magazine proclaimed itself the "official toilet humour magazine of the British Olympic team". They would be locked in the Tower for that today – unless of course Locog has designated an official Olympics toilet humour magazine, which is not beyond the realms of possibility.

3.51pm BST

The row over the non-selection of Aaron Cook has caused the British taekwondo team "unwanted and significant" distractions ahead of the Olympics, UK Sport has said. Such controversies will be addressed in future, the government's sport agency said. Cook was passed over despite being world No 1 in his category. A UK Sport "Mission 2012 tracker board" said:

The high profile "noise" generated around this matter has been an unwanted and significant distraction for the team at an important time.

UK Sport's chair, Sue Campbell, and Olympics minister Hugh Robertson said there would be more stringent rules surrounding selection policies. Sports would have to agree to the new rules in order to receive funding.

Campbell said: "We will have a much stronger line on governance - there are still some sports that need to improve governance."

Robertson added: "That has to change and it is a challenge for all of us. There will be a new set of criteria in next set of funding agreements where we will be addressing that and having much more transparent and accountable selection procedures."

Sports will be expected to publish their selection process on their website and tell athletes how and why selection is determined.

In a surprise last-minute decision, the South African Olympic committee has said that Oscar Pistorius can run in the 400m individual event – even though he did not meet the country's qualifying criteria in the 400m – as well as the 4x400m relay, as announced earlier.

"Today is truly one of the proudest days of my life," Pistorius said. "To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together."

Tubby Reddy, the Olympic committee chief executive, said his South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee agreed to clear Pistorius for the individual one-lap race as well. "Since he's going to be there [in London], our decision is he can run both," Reddy told the Associated Press. "There's no reason why he can't."

2.12pm BST

Here is a summary of today’s key events so far

• Oscar Pistorius has been picked as part of South Africa’s 4x400m relay team, meaning the athlete, whose legs were amputated when he was 11 months old, will become the first person to compete in both the Olympic and the Paralympic Games. He said today was “one of the happiest days of my life”. • David Millar was picked as expected for the Team GB five-man road cycling squad, along with Mark Cavendish, Chris Froome, Ian Stannard and Bradley Wiggins. Millar served a two-year suspension from 2004 to 2006 after admitting taking the banned blood booster EPO. But the British Olympic Association was subsequently forced to drop its lifetime Olympic ban for athletes found to have committed doping offences, allowing Millar – as well as Dwain Chambers and Carl Myerscough – to compete this year. Millar said: “I hope the public will see this race as Cav's and not Millar the drug cheat's.”• Louis Smith and Beth Tweddle will lead the men's and women's artistic gymnastics teams at London 2012, but Daniel Keatings misses out. The 15-year-old Rebecca Tunney becomes the youngest member of Team GB after being named in the women's team. Team GB's rowing line-up for London 2012 was completed as Constantine Louloudis was named in the men's eight category.• British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has said a flare-up of her foot injury will not put her appearance at the Olympics in doubt. Spain’s Rafael Nadal said the same about the tendinitis in his knee. And it was confirmed that Daniel Sturridge, one of the British football squad, has viral meningitis and may not be fit enough to play in the Olympic tournament. • Jenny Meadows, the 2009 world bronze 800m medallist, has called Team GB’s decision not to pick her for the Olympic athletics squad “a slap in the face”.• UK Sport, the government’s sport agency, has announced its official goal of a place in the top four in the Olympic medal table at London 2012, and has set a target of at least 48 medals from at least 12 sports. Team GB came fourth in 2008 and won 47 medals, leading to speculation organisers are downplaying expectations this time. • Danny Boyle, the director of the Olympic opening ceremony, has written to animal rights campaigners promising no harm will come to any of the animals used in the show.• A planned strike by London bus workers tomorrow in a row over an Olympic bonus has been suspended to allow further talks, conciliation service Acas has said. Earlier Transport for London offered to share any additional bus-fare revenue earned during the Games with drivers, who want a £500 Olympic bonus payment. Meanwhile a leading solicitor has expressed concern that London courts may not cope with the additional pressures the Games will put them under.

1.53pm BST

Louis Smith and Beth Tweddle will lead the men's and women's artistic gymnastics teams at London 2012, but Daniel Keatings misses out. The 15-year-old Rebecca Tunney becomes the youngest member of Team GB after being named in the women's team.

1.50pm BST

The British Olympic Association has announced the 18 gymnasts who will represent Team GB. Women’s Artistic

A planned strike by London bus workers tomorrow in a row over an Olympic bonus has been suspended to allow further talks, conciliation service Acas has said.

1.37pm BST

Marathon runner Paula Radcliffe has been speaking about the foot problem that forced her to miss the 2008 London marathon and has now resurfaced. She says her participation in the Olympics is not under threat at this stage:

Preparations for the Games have gone really well and I was really pleased until the last 10 days or so. The joint in my foot that can give me trouble has been giving me bit of a problem. I'm getting some answers on that this afternoon so that I won't be training in pain between now and then, but hopefully everything should be all right.

I don't think my participation at the Games is under threat at this stage. It's just a case of managing it. I can run on it; it just hurts ...

Really I just want to get to the Games healthy and in the best shape I can. I'll give it the best shot I can and want to walk away being able to say "that was a good performance". I know that at 38 I don't have as strong a chance as previous years, but there's still a chance. I want to run really well in the streets of London with the support that British athletes will receive.

Radcliffe has never won an Olympic medal.

She also said she would rather someone else carried the British flag during the opening ceremony, although it would be "an honour to be asked".

1.19pm BST

Oscar Pistorius has tweeted his reaction to being picked for the 4x400m Olympic relay team:

Oscar Pistorius (@OscarPistorius)

Today is really on of the happiest days of my life! Will be in @London2012 for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Oscar Pistorius, the South African runner who had both his legs amputated when he was 11 months old, will compete in both the Olympics and the Paralympics after his Olympic committee announced today that he had been selected for the 4x400m relay team.

The 25-year-old South African was not picked for the individual 400m event however.

Pistorius, who is known as the Blade Runner because of the carbon-fibre blades he runs on, won several medals at the Beijing and Athens Paralympics. Last month he was chosen to run in the 100m, 200m and 400m Paralympic races this year.

He went to court in 2008 for the right to run against able-bodied athletes. He had been banned not because he would be at a disadvantage but because it was thought his artificial legs had made him faster. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled there was no evidence he had any net advantage over able-bodied athletes.

Oscar Pistorius competing in the Paralympic World Cup in Manchester in May 2012.

Updated at 12.51pm BST

12.41pm BST

A man appeared in court today charged with a large-scale Olympic tickets scam.

Christakis Ioannou appeared at West London magistrates court accused of two counts of fraud. The 44-year-old did not say how he would plead. The magistrate sent the case to Kingston crown court, where Ioannou will appear on 12 July.

12.36pm BST

Double amputee OscarPistorius has been selected for South Africa's Olympic 4x400m relay team. This means he will race in both the Olympics and the Paralympics. More details soon ...

Updated at 12.51pm BST

12.33pm BST

Reuters has some more comments from David Millar about his selection in Britain's road team along with Mark Cavendish for the London Olympics. Millar said:

I hope the public will see this race as Cav's and not Millar the drug cheat's.

12.30pm BST

Team GB's rowing line-up for London 2012 was completed today as Constantine Louloudis was named in the men's eight category.

12.25pm BST

A leading solicitor has expressed concern that London courts are "creaking" and may not be able to cope with the additional pressures that arise during the Olympics - when some courts will be holding fewer sittings, reports Joshua Rozenberg.

Julian Young said the criminal justice system needed to be ready for a rise in crime during the games, with an influx of foreign visitors and the potential for fights to break out between rival groups of supporters.

The Guardian has learned that contingency plans are in place in case there are higher levels of crime during the Olympics. It's thought these could include courts sitting late into the evening.

12.21pm BST

Rafael Nadalhas said he is confident of defending his Olympic singles tennis title, despite being forced to pull out of a charity exhibition match with Novak Djokovic.

The world No 1 and 2 were due to play at Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium on 14 July, but Nadal has cancelled because of tendinitis in his knee.

He crashed out of Wimbledon in the second round last week in a shock defeat to Lukas Rosol and has been advised to rest for 15 days. Nadal said in a statement:

I was with my doctors on Monday and started already my treatment with the goal to be ready for the London Olympic Games and represent Spain once again.

Rafael Nadal during the match against Lukas Rosol at which he was knocked out of Wimbledon last week.

Updated at 12.29pm BST

12.08pm BST

Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo has confirmed Daniel Sturridge is suffering from viral meningitis but is hopeful he will be fit to take his part in Team GB's Olympic football squad.

Apparently he only has a mild strain of the illness. Di Matteo said: "We're going to follow his situation and hopefully he will get well as soon as possible and be able to join Olympics squad. He is currently still in hospital but I am optimistic he will recover [in time to play]."

Stuart Pearce's 18-man GB squad is set to meet in Loughborough next weekend and the manager has until July 25 to select a replacement should Sturridge be forced to withdraw.

Daniel Sturridge.

12.04pm BST

David Millar has spoken about his selection for the Team GB cycling squad.

It's exciting. I can start arranging my post-Tour de France now. It's surreal, really. It means a lot; it's a lot different for me than other competitors in that it was an event that I wrote off many years ago. I've already missed two [Olympics]. The first one I was in a drunken haze and as far away from the world of sport as humanly possible, but in Beijing it was pretty hard to avoid how hard it was not being there.

I made the right decision to put myself up and I'm very proud that the team has seen that I won't be a hindrance and that I can be a positive influence. I want to help and I want to help Mark [Cavendish] win the gold medal.

He said he had no complaints about not being selected for the time-trial event. "It's the road race I'm passionate about; that's why I'm going."

Updated at 12.05pm BST

12.00pm BST

Danny Boyle, the director of the Olympic opening ceremony, has written to animal rights campaigners promising no harm will come to any of the animals used in the show.

Ingrid Newkirk of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had written to Boyle warning of the stress, confusion and trauma the creatures could suffer, and asking him to use "truly dazzling state-of-the-art animatronics" instead.

If he did choose to use real-live animals, she asked that they be retired to an animal sanctuary like 48 piglets in the film Babe.

Boyle's letter promised "genuine care" would be taken of the animals. "They will feature only in the beginning of the show during daylight hours and will leave the stadium shortly after 9pm and before any large effects or noisy sequences take place," he said.

The Slumdog Millionaire director said he had not previously considered whether to send them to an animal sanctuary, but "will now follow that up vigorously".

Peta was not totally happy with this. A spokesman said:

Danny Boyle's reply does not fully address our concerns. We are satisfied that the animals won't now end up in an abattoir and that much more attention is now being paid to their welfare. But their transport and the stress of unfamiliar surroundings as well as their use as props rather than sentient, sensitive individuals have still not been addressed.

11.53am BST

Transport for London has offered to share any additional bus-fare revenue during the Olympics with bus staff to avert strikes planned for tomorrow and 24 July.

Members of the Unite union are planning to walk out over bus drivers' claim for a £500 bonus.

Leon Daniels of TfL said:

TfL does not directly employ London bus workers and this is therefore an issue for the bus operating companies and Unite to resolve through negotiation.

However, in order to address the perception that TfL will be generating significant additional bus fare revenue from the Games, we have offered to share any additional revenue with bus staff.

The offer of additional funds from the bus operating companies and a share of any additional bus fare revenue generated during the Games means there is no justification for further strike action.

Should Unite insist that the total sum available is offered to all employees at bus operators across London, then this would mean a payment of £583 for every employee of every bus company.

Unite should call off their strike action planned for tomorrow and put this very fair offer to their members.

A new Routemaster bus in London. Photograph: Julian Makey/Rex Features

The top of the range is what is possible but not probable, and that is the same for the bottom of the range. At least 48 medals sits very comfortably within that range. We aspire for them to be more than 48 medals.

Beijing 2008 was an outstanding Games for British athletes, and we knew at the time that bettering or even matching that achievement would not be easy, and should not be underestimated.

Since Beijing the performance system has stepped up another gear, and we really believe that the nation will be inspired this summer by our athletes winning more medals in more sports.

11.42am BST

James Pearce (@Pearcesport)

Major injury concern for Paula Radcliffe ahead of Olympics. Old foot injury has returned. Painful to run. Flying to Germany for treatment

The BBC's James Pearce reports that marathon runner Paula Radcliffe is having injury problems.

11.35am BST

While his Olympic contemporary Lord Coe prepares to bask in the glory of the London Olympics as chairman of Locog, Sir Steve Redgrave, who won gold medals for Britain in rowing events at every Olympics from 1984 to 2000, seems to have been reduced to selling socks. A press release from his PR agency announces breathlessly:

Sir Steve Redgrave has teamed up with the Aid by Trade Foundation to produce the first ever socks produced from ‘cotton made in Africa’ cotton and manufactured in the UK!

Redgrave’s brand, FiveG is named after his consecutive gold medals. This afternoon he will be taking part in a Q&A session at the factory in Loughborough where the socks are produced, at which you can “discover the story behind these socks, Sir Steve’s involvement and with the Olympics coming up, [and] quiz him on anything to do with London 2012 and the Olympic games!”My own tip for the gold medal for most absurd Olympics-related advert is this one proclaiming the drink it is selling – which I won’t name – “the official smoothie of the London 2012 Olympic Games”. Send me the strangest and most inappropriate Olympics-related endorsements and products to paul.owen@guardian.co.uk or @paultowen, or post in the comments below.

Photograph: Paul Owen for the Guardian

11.11am BST

Seoul '88 is to British hockey what Wembley '66 is to English football, and then some, writes Sachin Nakrani in No 46 of our 50 stunning Olympic moments.

The triumph was the nation's first in the sport at that level – gold had been won by a purely English side at the 1908 and 1920 Games, in London and Antwerp respectively – and created instant heroes of amateurs who prior to the Olympics were barely recognisable faces in their own streets.

Well perhaps [Imran] Sherwani was – the scorer of two goals in the 3-1 final victory over West Germany had in 1988 also been a newsagent in Cobridge, Staffordshire.

Updated at 11.11am BST

10.46am BST

UK Sport, the government’s sport agency, has today announced its official goal of a place in the top four in the Olympic medal table at London 2012, and has set a target of at least 48 medals from at least 12 sports.UK Sport may be downplaying expectations a little bit here. Britain came fourth in Beijing in 2008, with 47 medals, so their official target for 2012 is only one medal above that. And many commentators have speculated that the home-nation advantage may allow Britain to overtake Russia this year and come third in the medal table.

10.35am BST

As expected, David Millar has been named in the Team GB five-man road cycling squad for London 2012.He served a two-year suspension from 2004 to 2006 after admitting taking the banned blood booster EPO. But the British Olympic Association was subsequently forced to drop its lifetime Olympic ban for athletes found to have committed doping offences, allowing Millar – and some other athletes such as Dwain Chambers – to compete this year. Since his suspension Millar has become a campaigner for drug-free sport. All the men selected except Ian Stannard are currently competing in the Tour de France, which Bradley Wiggins is favourite to win. Wiggins and Chris Froome have also been selected to ride the Olympic time trial on 1 August. Despite being Commonwealth Games champion, Millar was overlooked for the time-trial event. Steve Cummings, Ben Swift and Jeremy Hunt were cut from the initial eight-man long list announced on June 13, but could be required if illness, injury or loss of form affects any of the five riders named. The selection completes the 27-rider cycling squad for the Games across four disciplines. This brings the total number of athletes selected to compete for Team GB to 507 of an expected 550, across 25 sports.The road race will start and finish on the Mall in central London, and the time trial at Hampton Court Palace in the south-west of the capital. Andy Hunt, Team GB’s chef de mission, said: “We have fantastic street circuits in London for the two men’s road events and the massive home crowd that will turn out to see our cyclists across every inch of the route will add a real psychological boost and hopefully push them on to glory.”Wiggins said:

I’m happy to be a part of it, we’ve got a good chance to win the road race with Cav and it’s a London Olympics which makes it very special. I’ve also got a chance to go for my fourth gold medal in the time trial.

Froome said:

It’s a great feeling to be selected; the Olympics is one event I’ve always wanted to go to. The course looks challenging – the laps around Box Hill are going to be hard and will make the race interesting. We’ll be there with Cav to support him and it should be a really good course for us. It’s huge to compete at home – the British support out here at the Tour de France has been amazing and I can only imagine it'll be even bigger at home. If it’s anything like the test event, it will be a big spectacle for the public to come and watch.

10.22am BST

The British Olympic Association has announced the five men's road cyclists who will compete for Team GB in the road race on 28 July. They are:

Mark Cavendish

Chris Froome

David Millar

Ian Stannard

Bradley Wiggins

More details soon ...

Updated at 10.22am BST

9.48am BST

Jenny Meadows, the 2009 world bronze 800m medallist, has called Team GB’s decision not to pick her for the Olympic athletics squad “a slap in the face”.She said she would not appeal against the decision, contrary to what she indicated before the decision was announced, but she added:

I find it difficult [to appeal against] the selection. Usually three A standard runners are selected and there are currently four of us. If I was against them [Marilyn Okoro, Emma Jackson, and Jemma Simpson], I would have lodged an appeal, but they've gone for one athlete who only holds the B standard which I find very, very strange. So for me to appeal I would basically deselect Lynsey and I haven't got the heart to do that.

She hinted that the others may question the decision:

I think others will, they will say they've got the current form, the current fitness and A standard time. Lynsey is in peak shape, she's a very good tactician and I hope she can run the A standard at the Olympics, which would make me feel she deserves the place. But I feel for the other girls. They have all been competing, they have all got A standards. It's a bit of a slap in the face really.

British gold medallist Denise Lewis said she found the decision an “utter shock”.

I know Lynsey Sharp has performed really well in the trials, but how can you justify leaving two of the quickets women, with the A standard, at home? You know, Emma Jackson finished third in the trials, but still, she has the A standard. Marilyn Okoro [who] also has the A standard is the quickest woman over 800 this year for Great Britain. And they’re going to be watching it on TV. It’s just a farce. I’m not sure what is in Charles [van Commenee, the Team GB head coach] and the other selectors’ heads, I really don’t.

Jenny Meadows. Photograph: Matthew Lewis/Getty Images for Aviva

Updated at 9.48am BST

9.35am BST

Hello and welcome to today’s Olympics live blog.Coming up today:• The Team GB gymnastics squad and cycling team will be announced. The cycling team is expected to include David Millar, who became eligible in May when the British Olympic Association were forced to drop their bylaw banning those with prior doping offences.

•Athletes Richard Kilty and Gareth Warburton are expected to lodge formal appeals against their omission from Britain's Olympics squad; after being passed over for the 800m, Marilyn Okoro has threatened to go further still and quit the sport, despite being selected for the 4x400m. •The Olympic torch is travelling through East Anglia from Peterborough to Norwich, with a stopover at Sandringham, the Queen’s Norfolk estate. Any members of the royal family reading, send me your pictures to paul.owen@guardian.co.uk or tweet me @paultowen. Commoners can have a go too.•A signal system failure hit a busy tube line this morning, causing severe delays in the morning rush-hour. Bob Crow of the RMT union said: "This is one of the worst tube breakdowns this year and, just weeks from the Olympics, shows that the cuts to maintenance driven by TfL [Transport for London] and Boris Johnson have left services on a wing and a prayer with no plan B."

•At the two-week-long live rehearsals for the Olympic tennis tournament, Wimbledon, Andy Murray is up against Spain's David Ferrer in the quarter-finals.Full coverage here.In today’s news so far:• Daniel Sturridge, the Chelsea striker on whom Stuart Pearce is relying for goals in his Team GB side at the London Olympics, may have to pull out of the squad after undergoing tests for suspected meningitis, writes Owen Gibson.• A new report from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers suggests that technological innovation is now an integral part of sport at the highest level, and that Olympic competition is not just about who is fastest – but whose kit is smartest, writes Sarah Boseley.

Many of Britain's Olympic athletes will have had clothes and helmets individually designed for them following a full body scan to establish exactly what contour will give them the most aerodynamic shape. Mountain bikes and sailing harnesses will have nano-coatings that repel liquid, preventing drag from mud or water. Boxers have trained with overhead cameras that track and record every weave and punch. Divers get post-training feedback on their ipods from poolside computers that measure the angle of their bodies in the air. "Technology is as much a part of an athlete's armoury as nutrition, training and coaching," says the report.

Still, we must salute the brilliant theory that the first recorded usage of medalling was in fact a few decades ago, in Scooby Doo. "And I would have gotten away with it too," ran this auspicious debut, "if it hadn't been for you medalling kids … "

• Here is Owen Gibson’s full story on Team GB’s decision to select Lynsey Sharp and not Jenny Meadows for the 800m. All this and more here throughout the day.